Biographical Sketch of Arthur Kirkpatrick, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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Arthur Kirkpatrick, Secretary and Business Manager of the Merchants'
Insurance Co., of St. Joseph, is one of a family of seven children,
four of whom were sons. His father, Judge W. Kirkpatrick, a native
of Tennessee, was a large farmer and stock trader in his own state.
Was also, at one period, an influential member of the county bench,
and was all his life an active business man. When his son, Arthur,
was eight months old, he moved with his family to Missouri, and
settled in Cooper County, where his children were all reared in habits
of industry and practical business. In 1843, Judge Kirkpatrick moved
with his family to Johnson County, Missouri, and here the subject of
this sketch received a practical business education. His first effort
in the way of earning an independent livelihood was in the profession
of teaching. An experience of two successive summers in this calling,
however, determined him to select another couse of life, and he accor-
dingly engaged in mercantile pursuits, in which his efforts were gen-
erally crowned with success; also, at different periods previous to
the breaking out of the civil war, successfully engaged in the milling
business. In March, 1863, he moved to St. Joseph, where he engaged in
the grain, shipping and general produce business. He subsequently
engaged in freighting across the plains. In 1866 and 1867, he was
engaged in mercantile business in Utah and Montana, where his efforts
were crowned with uniform success. In 1869, he married Miss Lettie J.
(Ransom) Poteet, of St. Joseph. By this marriage he had two children,
the eldest, a daughter, born in 1870 survives. In January 1876, Mr.
Kirkpatrick had the misfortune to lose his wife by death. In 1873, he
engaged in the insurance business. Is at present a member of the
Board of Managers of the Missouri State Lunatic Asylum, No. 2, and a
Director and Manager of the Citizens' Railway Company. Mr. Kirkpatrick
has, since his residence in St. Joseph, been more or less actively
engaged in mercantile and other enterprises, and ranks prominently
among the successful business men of St. Joseph, and deservedly enjoys
a large share of personal popularity.

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